Morning journal and courier., 1887-05-30
THE WEEKLY PAYMENT LAW.

alS-WeeklY Payments I'm MagSachu
 settH-The Ten Hour Law-The New
 Law Regulating Sunday Traffic.
 There have been many inquiries made by working people relative to the new law es tablishing weekly payments. The bill take
 effect June 1st.
 Corporations only (not firms or priyat employers) are affected by the law. It al lows payments to be made at any time with in eight days after the week in which tht wages are earned. It is probable that wages earned during the past month will be paic early in June, and then the corporations vii start out under the new system.
 June 1st falls on Wednesday this year, and the payment for May will probably cover all wages earned up to and including to. morrow, May 31st. Some corporations may prefer to include with the May payments the wages earned up to and including Saturday, June 4th so as to start out in even weeks for the future. Under this plan the wages earned in the week, June 9th to June 11th inclusive, would be paid either on Saturday, 18th, or Monday, 21st. Some corporations may prefer the other plan. That is, to pay only up to the last day of May, and to pay the wages earned in the remainder of the week, June 1st to 4th, on Saturday, 11th, or Monday, 18th.
 be paid. Payment of an estimated or ascer- tained eighty per cent. will be co mpliance with-the law, but full settlement must be made every fourth week.
 A Massachusetts manufacturer comment ing on the effect of weekly payments in that State says: '1t greatly reduces petty credit The workingman as @ rule now pays as he goes, and if our mercantile community were consulted they would testify to the great saving in bad debts which results A lead ing marketman says that during and after the war the amount lost by bills which had run for some months was enormous. Now nearly everybody pays cash or settles within the month. The working classes are certain 1y better off, as 8 man free from debt is in a more independent position and knows what he can save and put at interest in the savings bank or invest in home. It is very notice able that real estate coming within the work ingman's means is of very ready sale"
 There has been much discussion among the employees of the Consolidated road over a new system of payment. General Superin- tendent Shepard has this reasoning and direct statement to make in regard to the supposed difficulty: 'Not man in our em- ployment," says he, twill lose one cent by the comptroller's system and it is all non- sense for the men to entertain any such idea. We have given directions that whenever a mans pay might be trife short he shall receive every cent due him. I have notified every division superintendent to so inform the men. Mir. Morgan at Belle dock hes been 1USLEucLS0 LO COmmuu1caL0 LQlS 10 ms men. The company has no intention of tak- ing one cent from the mems pay. On the contrary their pay will be increased in a number of cases. We have already advanced their pay and by this new method of compu- tation it will be much further increased. It is simply folly for the men to jump to con- clusion that their pay is endangered. They can rest assured it is not"
 The new law providing that women and children shall not be employed in stores or factories more than ten hours day goes into effect July 1. Already many girls employed in stores are notified that they will not be wanted after that time Some of the poor mothers are alarmed at the idea of being cut of from their support. The storekeepers are employing boys.
 After Wednesday the law which makes about five hours of each Sunday more sacred than the remaining hours of the same day preventing the running of railroad trains in this State between 10 o'clock 8. m. and 3 o'clock D. m, will become operative. People in the large cities who desire to spend Sun day at the seashore in Connecticut must take their departures on Saturday and to return to business must wait for the regular week. day train.